Travel
within Jordan is efficient and enjoyable. A good road
system is constantly being expanded and upgraded, and most of the sites a
visitor would want to see are at most withen few hours drive from Amman.

Jordan's
road signs are marked in English and Arabic, and there
are petrol stations and rest houses at regular intervals throughout the country.

High
Lights For Jordan ordan's investment in education has paid
off handsomely, as is demonstrated by a soaring literacy rate. In 1960, only 33
percent of Jordanians aged fifteen and over could functionally read and write.

After
34 years of pro-education governmental policies, however,
the 1996 literacy rate had climbed to 85.4 percent.

Jordan
hopes to continue this remarkable rise by achieving 92
percent literacy by the turn of the century.

While
the overall literacy rate has risen sharply, a substantial
gender gap remains: two-thirds of all illiterate Jordanians are women.

One
of the most significant policy choices that has benefited
Jordan's educational system has been the decision to favor spending on basic
education over higher education.

This
has facilitated the country's goal of universal enrollment
and has boosted literacy levels throughout the general population.

By
consistently allocating more than three-fourth of the total
education budget to primary and secondary schooling, Jordan hasa dopted a
negalitarian approach to education which has benefited the entire country in the
long term.

Jordan's
education record has proven impressive by international
standards, and results from the foresight of the country's leadership, who saw
the need to focus on building the country's human capital to meet the challenges
of the future